Production of glazed fabrics



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Patented Jan. 12, 1943 2,307,876 raonucrron or GLAZED memos Harry Corteen,

Manchester, England, assignor to Tootal Broadhurst Lee Company Limited, Manchester, England No Drawing. Application Serial No. 313,512. 13, 1939 1 Claim.

This invention relates to an improvement in the production of glazed fabrics.

According to the invention a fabric is treated with a viscous dispersion emulsion or solution of an artificial polymerised material of a rubberlike nature for example, so as to form a film on the fabric and then subsequently coated with a resin composition of an alkyd resin and a resin of the urea-formaldehyde type (including thiourea and analogous bodies having the grouping One of the emulsions sold by the I. G. Farbenindustrie A. G. under the trade names Igeplast (polymerized esters of acrylic acid or its derivatires), for example Igeplast E., E. T. L., E. 8., with, or preferably without a filler, is applied to the fabric. The emulsion may be so viscous that it does not penetrate to the other side. The fabric is then dried. Alternatively, the polymerised material, or material and filler, may be precipitated on the fabric by addition of acid.

The fabric is then coated with a resin composition on top of the dried emulsion and filler with which the fabric has beentreated, such a resin January 12, 1940,

In Great Britain January composition being a mixture of Bedafin 2001 (I. C. I.) (registered trade-mark) which is glycerolphthalic-anhydride-urea-formaldehyde composition and Paralac 285K (I. C. I.) (registered trademark modified glyptal phthalic anhydride plus 011) which acts as a plasticiser. Cellulose nitrate may be added to this mixture. It may be printed with a colour first if desired, to produc a pattern. The fabric is then heated at a suitable temperature.

The product is fast to ironing and moderate washing.

The invention also includes the treatment of fabrics with polymerised hydrocarbons of the ethylene series, e. 8., those sold under the trade names Polythene or Oppanol, and then with a mixed resin composition of the type described.

I claim as my invention:

A glazed chintz fabric having a first coatin of an artificial rubber-like polymer of an acrylic ester derivative and a superimposed second coating |containing a urea-formaldehyde resin, an alkyd resin and a plasticiser.

HARRY COR'I'EEN. 

